I loved every minute of it ... but had it easy in my field. I was an electronics/electro-mechanical systems tech guy and my first assignment was at Vandenberg AFB, where we actually launched Minuteman missiles in test programs. So it was like enlisting straight into a NASA kinda thing. I was there for nine years, then did a year at a 'real' missile wing before I decided to take my skills over to a Minuteman contractor. I always say I lived a charmed life for someone who started out as a poor country boy - LOL. Just short of forty years in the same basic field working my way upwards for the AF, Rockwell International, and the Boeing. I had a blast - pun intended.
I loved every minute of it ... but had it easy in my field. I was an electronics/electro-mechanical systems tech guy and my first assignment was at Vandenberg AFB, where we actually launched Minuteman missiles in test programs. So it was like enlisting straight into a NASA kinda thing. I was there for nine years, then did a year at a 'real' missile wing before I decided to take my skills over to a Minuteman contractor. I always say I lived a charmed life for someone who started out as a poor country boy - LOL. Just short of forty years in the same basic field working my way upwards for the AF, Rockwell International, and the Boeing. I had a blast - pun intended.
Tactical nukes have always been problematic. One can only hope no one ever uses either these or the big guys.
My career (now retired) was in ICBMs with the Strategic Air Command when I started out. Our motto was 'Peace is our profession' ... that kind say's how we felt about it.